MANVEL 


W  YORK . 


PINS    FOR    WINGS 

by 
EMANUEL    MORGAN 


BOOKS  BY 
EMANUEL 
MORGAN 

Spectra  (with  Anne 
Knish)  The  Beloved  Stran 
ger  (with  Witter  Bynner) 


Of  this  edition  2,000  copies  printed  in  October,  192.0. 
Also  fifty  copies  on  hand-made  paper. 


TO  WILLIAM  MARION  REEDY 

1862 — 1920 

A  mirror  breathed  upon  by  Death 
but  undimmed 


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PINS  FOR  WINGS 

BY  EMANUEL  MORGAN. 
A      THE    SUNWISE    TURN        A 


Copyright    1910 
by  the  Sunwise  Turn 


Caricatures  by  IVAN  OPFFER 

and 
WILLIAM  SAPHIER 


TABLE  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS 


Title  Page — Emanuel  Morgan  Pinning 

Copyright  Page — Saphier  by  Opffer  (after  which  Opffer 
dared  not  sit  for  Saphier) 

Page    i — Marsden  Hartley  (slightly  bored) 

Page    8— Edgar  Lee  Masters 

Page  1 1 — Maxwell  Bodenheim 

Page  12 — Emanuel  Carnevali 

Page  14 — John  Gould  Fletcher 

Page  1 5 — Robert  Frost 

Page  1 7 — Siegfried  Sassoon 

Page  1 8 — Alfred  Kreymborg  (before  he  toured  America) 

Page  19 — Vachel  Lindsay 

Page  20 — Spoon  River 

Page  21 — Edgar  Lee  Masters 

Page  22 — Harriet  Monroe  and  her  hobby 

Page  24 — Ezra  Pound 

Page  25 — Lola  Ridge 

Page  26 — Carl  Sandburg 

Page  ^7 — Sandburg  Considering  the  Ingredients 

Page  28 — Siegfried  Sassoon 

Page  29 — Tagore 

Page  30 — Louis  Untermeyer 

Page  3 1 — William  Carlos  Williams 

Page  32 — Williams  again 


PINS    FOR    WINGS 

By  EMANUEL  MORGAN 


LASCELLES  ABERCROMBIE 

an  iron  wheel 

with  a  navel  of  gold 

FRANKLIN  P.  ADAMS 

Greek  masks 

in  ink 

on  comic  finger-nails 

A  E 

liquid  air 
somewhere 

CONRAD  AIKEN 

phosphorescent 

plumbing 

ZOE  AKINS 
brand  ied 
lotus 

RICHARD  ALDINGTON 

an  Attic  vase 
full  of  tea 

MARY  ALDIS 
a  street-car 
shying 


PINS  FOR  WINGS 


WALTER  CONRAD  ARENSBERG 
water-pretzels 

KARLE  WILSON  BAKER 
a  window 
in  the  wash 

WILTON  AGNEW  BARRETT 

night-thoughts 

of  a  dragon-fly 

KATHERINE  LEE  BATES 
four-and-twenty  blackbirds 
half-baked  in  a  pie 

STEPHEN  VINCENT  BENET 
a  pistol 
of  crystal 

WILLIAM  ROSE  BENET 
a  river  of  rockets 
in  daylight 

STELLA  BENSON 

Cinderella's 

riding-breeches 


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MAXWELL 

BODENHEIM 
a  tooth 
toe-dancing 

GORDON 

BOTTOMLEY 
by  two  nymphs 
out  of  old  England 

WILLIAM 
ASPENWALL 
BRADLEY 
a  bearded  wheel 
barrow 

BERTON 

BRALEY 
fonts  of  type 
in  a  tambourine 

ANNA  HEMPSTEAD  BRANCH     ROBERT  BRIDGES 

nectar  a  violet 

drunk  from  a  sainted  shoe  'neath  the  Kohinoor 


GELETT  BURGESS 

sculptured  chewing-gum 
on  a  trolley 

AMELIA  JOSEPHINE  BURR 
a  tortoise-shell  comb 
as  a  lyre 


DANA  BURNETT 
a  young  policeman 
with  a  flute  in  his  pocket 

ELSA  BARKER 
Jacob's  ladder 
for  a  mattress 


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EMANUEL  CARNEVALI 


in  travail 


RICHARD  BURTON 

a  quill 

in  a  button-hole 

WITTER  BYNNER 

God 

in  the  sugar-bowl 

EMILE  CAMMAERTS 
sticky  little  hands 
in  yours 

BLISS  CARMAN 
little  hills 
tipping  their  hats 


EDWARD  CARPENTER 

Calamus 

unbound 


WILLIAM  H.  CARRUTH         JOHN  JAY  CHAPMAN 
Alpha  and  Omega  oil  Jove 

for  soul-sprains  in  a  pew 

GILBERT  K.  CHESTERTON 

a  Cardinal 

on  a  merry-go-round 


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FREDERICK  MORTIMER 

CLAPP 
a  collector 
of  emotional  bricks 

PADRAIC  COLUM 
the  whistle  of  a  kettle 
to  the  petal  of  a  thistle 


SARAH  N.  CLEGHORN 

the  rosy  half 
of  an  old  apple 

GRACE  HAZARD 

CONKLING 
a  goblet  of  mist 
for  each  place 


EDMUND  VANCE  COOKE      ALICE  CORBIN 


wit 

zithering  in  a  derby 


a  quiver 
full  of  rulers 


E.  E.  CUMMINGS 

much  ado 

about  the  alphabet 

GABRIELE  D'ANNUNZIO 
a  passion-flower 
dipped  in  ammonia 

MARY  CAROLYN  DAVIES 
a  flutter  of  skirts 
between  life  and  death 


T.  A.  DALY 
curbstone 
carolling 
to  curbstone 

OLIVE  TILFORD  DARGAN 
she  wears  her  heart 
on  your  other  sleeve 

WILLIAM  M.  DAVIES 
jewelled  buns 


FANNIE  STEARNS  DAVIS 

sun-bonnets 

for  Minerva 


WALTER  DE  LA  MARE 
a  door-knob 
in  the  mist 


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BABETTE  DEUTSCH 

the  phoenix 

lays  a  purple  bomb 


JOHN  DRINKWATER 

dust 

in  a  mug  of  ale 


LORD  DUNSANY 
the  beautiful  thump 
of  the  gods 


MAX  EASTMAN 

Aphrodite 

tattooed  on  a  muscle 


T.  S.  ELIOT 
the  wedding  cake 
of  two  tired  cultures 


JOHN  ERSKINE 

marbles 

in  a  muff 


DONALD  EVANS 

the  necktie 
of  Lucifer 

ARTHUR  DAVISON  FICKE 

St.  Sebastian 

in  gloves 

trimming  his  arrow-tips 

MAHLON  LEONARD  FISHER 
fourteen  feet 
in  a  feather-bed 

JOHN  GOULD  FLETCHER 
two  halves  of  a  typewriter 
still  moving 


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F.  S.  FLINT 

the  halo 

of  a  street-lamp 

ROBERT  FROST 
paintings  by  the  family 
in  birch-bark  frames 

NORMAN  GALE 
a  knickerbockered 
bobolink 

THEODOSIA 

GARRISON 

a  peasant 

singing 

in  French  heels 


KAHLIL  GIBRAN 

repartee 

from  all  three  crosses 


WILFRID  WILSON  GIBSON 

there's  heart 

behind  the  heavy  breathing 


ARTURO  GIOVANITTI 
a  crow-bar 
loosening  heaven 


ROBERT  GRAVES 
a  khaki  bib 


WILLIAM  GRIFFITH 
a  little  finger 
in  the  dusk 


EDGAR  GUEST 
communion-bread 
with  slices  of  bologna 


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LOUISE  IMOGEN  GUINEY  ARTHUR  GUITERMAN 

digging  with  palm-leaves  a  banjo 

she  buries  a  trumpet  bumps  a  rose 

in  Oxford 


HERMANN  HAGEDORN 
the  silver  lining 
of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A. 


THOMAS  HARDY 

a  strong  man 

tripping 

on  the  shadow  of  a  god 


ELIJAH  HAY 

lather 

but  no  beard 


H.  D. 

the  Winged  Victory 

hopping 


OLIVER  HERFORD 
bottled  kittens 


RALPH  HODGSON 

a  syrinx 

played  by  a  gentleman 


BRIAN  HOOKER 

angles 

at  ease 


A.  E.  HOUSMAN 
a  dead  lad 
laughing 


LAURENCE  HOUSMAN 

Jack 

out  of  the  box 


HELEN  HOYT 

ice-patterns 

melting  on  the  side-walk 


FORDMADOX  HEUFFER  NELSON  LESLIE  JENNINGS 
a  grey-hound  a  sack-suit 

loping  with  pugs  of  cinnabar 


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ORRICK  JOHNS 
the  Rubaiyat 
carved  on  a  carrot 


THOMAS  S.  JONES,  JR. 
one  holly-berry 
on  an  altar 


HARRY  KEMP 
seven-league  boots 
on  a  linnet 

ANNE  KNISH 
a  gargoyle 
remembering 

ALFRED 

KREYMBORG 
Pierrot 
with  the  hiccoughs 

D.  H.  LAWRENCE 

lovers 

eating  thistle-pie 

LOUIS  LEDOUX 

Hellas 

delivered 

RICHARD  LE 
GALLIENNE 
talcum-powder  on  the 
tail  of  a  wayward 
nightingale 


RUDYARD  KIPLING 

Pan 

stoking  an  empire 


SAPHItR 


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WILLIAM  ELLERY 

LEONARD 
veils 
on  an  anvil 

VACHEL  LINDSAY 
a  street-cry 
in  heaven 

HANIEL  LONG 
Harlequin 
one  leg  woollen 
the  other  illicit 

AMY  LOWELL 

a  rhinestone  chip 

on  a  blood-red  shoulder 

ALLAN  ROSS 

MACDOUGALL 
a  Falstaffian 
Christ-child 

PERCY  MACKAYE 

laurel 

on  a  carpet-sweeper 

EDWIN  MARKHAM 

he  has  learned  the  art 
of  leaning  on  a  hoe 
without  soiling  his  beard 


MAURICE 

MAETERLINCK 
a  dreamy  fat  man 
dancing 
in  blue  gauze 

> 

DON  MARQUIS 
a  walnut  bureau 
with  crickets  for  handles 


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JOHN  MASEFIELD 
fishing  for  the  sunrise 
he  catches  fish 

WALT  MASON 

overalls 

rhyming 

EDGAR  LEE  MASTERS 
a  graphophone 
in  the  morgue 

ALICE  MEYNELL 

candles 

burning 

for  one  another 

SCUDDER  MIDDLETON 

a  liberty-cap 

shaving 

EDNA  ST.  VINCENT  MILLAY 

a  hamadryad 

in  the  tree  of  knowledge 

RUTH  COMFORT  MITCHELL 
a  heart-line 
running  off  the  hand 
into  print 

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HAROLD  MONRO 

clay-flecks 

on  a  thigh 


ANGELA  MORGAN 
Jeanne  d'Arc 
seizes  a  trombone 


HARRIET  MONROE 
the  Mother  Superior 
considers  lingerie 


EMANUEL  MORGAN 

a  bat 

and  a  butterfly 

mating 

CHRISTOPHER  MORLEY 

an  affectionate 

scorpion 

DAVID  MORTON 
waters 
changing 
in  a  lock 

DHAN  GOPAL  MUKERJI 

lightning 

as  a  baton 

GILBERT  MURRAY 
a  discus-thrower 
perfumed 


STURGE  MOORE 
a  proud  procession 
of  pudding-stone 


JOHN  G.  NEIHARDT 

muscle-bound 

but  Marathon 


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HENRY  NEWBOLT 
the  Jolly  Union 
Roger  Jack 

YONE  NOGUCHI 

incense 

for  breakfast 

ALFRED  NOYES 

Robin  Hood 

singing 

the  Doxology 

DAVID  O  NEIL 

jackstraws 

and  a  hook  of  silk 

MOIRA  O  NEILL 

the  hands  of  the  harpist 

homespun 

fingers  of  gauze 

JAMES  OPPENHEIM 

vats 

of  star-soup 

JOHN 
OXENHAM 
the  adoring 
eye 
of  God's  dog 


ROBERT  NICHOLS 

Mars 

a  la  mode 

GRACE  FALLOW  NORTON 

swan's-down 

in  an  eddy 

JOHN  MYERS  O'HARA 

robes 

of  old  yeast 

GEORGE  O  NEIL 

petals 

in  a  glass  of  milk 

ROSE  O  NEILL 
flowers  blown 
along  a  sphynx 

SHAEMAS  O'SHEEL 

a  dream 

arguing 

JOSEPHINE 

PRESTON 

PEABODY 
bleeding 
lilies 


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EZRA  POUND 
a  book-worm 
in  tights 

EDWIN  FORD  PIPER 
a  heart-beat 
in  a  hen-house 

GALE  YOUNG  RICE 
a  coloured  post-card 
as  Hamlet 


WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  PERCY 

a  faun 
reciting 

LIZETTE  WOODWORTH  REESE 
a  singing  hinge 
of  home 

JESSIE  B.  RITTENHOUSE 

dew 
purring 


CORINNE  ROOSEVELT  ROBINSON 
a  big  stick  of  maple 
caressing  a  motor 

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LOLA  RIDGE 

grapes 

on  a  ragged  corsage 


GEORGE  STERLING 
from  a  scarlet  bowl 
he  feeds  the  smallness  of  life 
to  the  largeness  of  words 

JAMES  STEPHENS 

meadows 

amazed  with  men 


EDWIN 

ARLINGTON 

ROBINSON 
from  inside  the  rim  of 
his  eye-glasses  he 
wipes  away  the  tears 
of  two  counties 
deftly 
with  a  lilac 

ROBERT  ALDEN 

SANBORN 
back-scratchers 
in  bloom 

GEORGE 

SANTAYANA 
a  withered 
rose-window 


ROBERT  HAVEN 
SCHAUFFLER 

hobnail  etchings 
in  excelsis 

WALLACE  STEVENS 
the  shine  of  a  match 
in  an  empty  pipe 

I.  C.  SQUIRES 

a  ballet 

of  marshmallows 


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CLINTON 

SCOLLARD 
a  mouse 
in  the  piano 

EVELYN  SCOTT 
candied  colon 

MARJORIE  ALLEN 

SEIFFERT 
in  a  bath-tub  filled 
with  Pierian  springs 
she  washes  off  her 
inhibitions  with  a 
gurgling  elbow 

ROBERT  W. 
SERVICE 
the  red  corpuscle 
courts  the  white 
with  a  cornet 

CARL  SANDBURG 
a  snow-pudding 
of  fists 


GERTRUDE  STEIN 
wings  rotting 
under  water 


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PINS  FOR  WINGS 


EDWARD 
SHANKS 

a  teaspoon 

lost  in  rose-leaves 


ODELL 
SHEPARD 

spring-wind 

up  the  trouser-leg 


LEONORA 
SPEYER 

a  velvet  train 
in  a  brook 


CHARLES 
WHARTON  STORK 

stilts 
clasping 


ARTHUR  SYMONS 

enchanted 

Roquefort 


SIEGFRIED  SASSOON 

Puck 

at  an  autopsy 


SARA  TEASDALE 

one  hand  throws  away  a  pearl 

rounded  by  an  oyster 

the  other  clings  to  a  bit  of  shell 

rounded  by  the  waves 


EDITH  M.THOMAS 
stairs  whispering 
in  a  steeple 


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RABINDRANATH  TAGORE 

a  bearded  child  by  the  world-old  sea 

making  a  temple 

of  pebbles  and  a  phallus 


EUNICE  TIETJENS 
she  exclaims 

through  a  magnifying  glass 
into  a  mirror 


RIDGELY  TORRENCE 
a  long  black  cloak 
circling  a  lake 


CHARLES  HANSON  TOWNE 

church-bells 

on  a  bicycle 


HENRY  VAN  DYKE 
a  pulpit 
slowly  waltzing 


LEONARD  VAN 
NOPPEN 

the  great 
i  amb 


PINS  FOR  WINGS 


LOUIS  UNTERMEYER 

Paris 

awarding  the  apple 

to  Vulcan 

GEORGE  SYLVESTER 
VIERECK 
a  palanquin 
on  a  dachshund 

CHARLES  VILDRAC 
Judgment-day  and  the 
footstool  carved  in  jade 


ARTHUR  WALEY 
woollen  gloves 
assorting  feathers 


THOMAS  WALSH 

top-sails 

of  lace 


EDA  LOU  WALTON 
the  wandered  wisp 
of  a  tepee 


WILLIAM  WATSON 
a  gray-maned  lion 
heart-ache  and  tooth-ache 
but  royal 


WILLARD  WATTLES 
the  alarm-clock 
of  Christ 


CAROLYN  WELLS 
English  sparrows 
in  vaudeville 


JOHN  HALL  WHEELOCK 

a  floral  display 

in  an  ice-cream  parlor 


MARGARET  WIDDEMER 
a  darting  umbrella 


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By  EMANUEL  MORGAN 


WILLIAM  CARLOS  WILLIAMS 
carbolic  acid 
in  love 


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By  EMANUEL  MORGAN 


FLORENCE  WILKINSON       MARGUERITE  WILKINSON 
Gothic  carvings  arms 

left  in  a  cloak-room  thrown  around 

outdoors 

CLEMENT  WOOD 
the  west  wind 
in  rebellion 
against  a  wall 

CHARLES  ERSKINE  SCOTT  WOOD 

he  finds  in  the  desert 

a  Rogers  group 

of  the  kingdom  of  heaven 

GEORGE  EDWARD  WOODBERRY 

grape-juice 

in  the  Holy  Grail 

EDITH  WYATT 

a  cornstalk 

held  up  with  a  hairpin 

WILLIAM  BUTLER  YEATS 

a  pot  of  mould 

at  the  foot  of  the  rainbow 


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